short question regarding xsl:attribute

  an example involving xsl:attribute in kay's book:

  <table>
   <xsl:attribute border="2"/>
  </table>

  i'm assuming that this is just a longer way of writing

  <table border="2">

no?  just underneath that, he has what i take to be a 
more realistic example, but i just wanted to clarify that
the first example could certainly have been implemented
without an <xsl:attribute>, right?

if not, then i'm fairly confused.

rday


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